Creative Facilitation

Bespoke facilitation and support for individuals, communities and organisations.

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The people I work with have important conversations to navigate and complex challenges to solve. My role isn't to arrive with the answers, but to create the conditions where you feel able to share knowledge, listen deeply, think together and make meaningful progress.

Whether it's a workshop, strategy session, consultation or community event, I design creative processes that help people untangle complexity, uncover what really matters and communicate ideas and solutions in ways that others can understand, connect with and act upon.

Designed around your people and your goals, we will facilitate your retreats or away day, creating the space to strengthen relationships, develop strategy, navigate change and build shared ownership through creativity.

Ideal for

  • Leadership teams

  • Organisations

  • Public bodies

  • Universities

  • Community groups

BOOK US FOR YOUR EVENT OR WORKSHOP

A woman giving a presentation in a conference room with multiple attendees seated around a large wooden table. A large screen displays presentation slides, and a banner with colorful stripes stands beside her.

"Felt surprisingly connected and close to everyone despite the short time frame... perhaps a mix of facilitation style, group, location, good timings and movement."
— Participant, IDEA Innovation Lab

"I like being facilitated with your kind of compassion with mind body and soul."
— Compass Child & Family Services Team Away Day

Our creative Building Blocks

Creative Facilitation

Thoughtfully designed conversations and activities that encourage participation, curiosity and shared ownership.

Visual Thinking

Making ideas visible through sketching, mapping and collaborative visual frameworks that support clearer thinking and decision-making.

Storytelling for Impact

Helping teams communicate their ideas, research, products or strategy through compelling narratives and visual storytelling.

Design Thinking & Innovation

Creative methods for understanding needs, generating ideas, prototyping solutions and developing new opportunities.

Vision, Mission & Values

Facilitated sessions that help organisations explore purpose, culture and strategic direction.

Imagining Futures

Creative foresight, systems thinking and scenario building to explore future possibilities with confidence.

Team Connection and Community Building

Creative activities that strengthen relationships, build trust, celebrate strengths and create space for reflection and meaningful conversations.

“Honest and constructive discussion, challenging of ideas towards refining vision and mission, having time out to think all very helpful. Facilitation style of structure, as well as room for blue sky thinking was very good for me. There was space for many voices, opinions and an authentic start, reflecting where we want to get to” — Participant, Imagining the future away day with Cork Mental Health Services.

An example creative team day to strengthen how we work together, explore new ways of thinking and build practical skills and ideas we can take forward.

Bespoke facilitation includes:

  • Initial consultation ensuing the experience is co-designed with you

  • A bespoke programme tailored to your objectives and your people

  • Creative facilitation throughout

  • Visual tools, templates and materials

  • Practical activities and collaborative exercises

  • Optional illustrated outputs and follow-up sessions and resources

Depending on the scale of your event, I can work independently or bring together a trusted team of facilitators, illustrators and subject specialists to support larger groups and more complex programmes. The client is usually responsible for organising the venue and refreshments, but I can support you with ideas.

Vision, Mission & Values Workshop

With Cork Mental Health Services

A one-day workshop bringing together service users, clinicians, researchers, artists and community partners to co-create a shared vision, mission and values for a growing network of community mental health initiatives in West Cork.

Using creative facilitation and visual thinking, the day created space for people to reflect, contribute and shape a shared direction that reflected the experience and aspirations already within the room.

"Honest and constructive discussion... There was space for many voices, opinions and an authentic start, reflecting where we want to get to."

EXAMPLE PROJECT

Group of people in a workshop looking at a large organized display board on a wooden wall, with sticky notes, photographs, and diagrams.
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A woman with curly hair and earrings is drawing on a large paper attached to a wall with clothespins. The paper has a map or diagram with colorful labels and lines.
Group of people in a meeting room looking at a large board with notes, images, and diagrams
A large group of people seated around a conference table in a well-lit room, engaged in discussion. The table has papers, sticky notes, and drinks on it, and there are posters and banners in the background.
A table with various papers, notebooks, yarn art projects, and a smartphone.
People gathered around a table looking at large sheets of paper with handwritten notes and sticky notes, engaging in a group activity or discussion.
A room with a large white fabric banner on the wall that reads 'Our boats are open and we sail them for everyone' in bold orange letters, with small framed pictures and colorful yarn on the right side. There are several chairs, a small table with yarn, and a table with a crochet blanket. The floor is checkered with red and gray tiles.
Group of women engaging in conversation around a table in a rustic café with exposed brick walls and large windows.
Group of people gathered around a wooden table working on a large poster, writing with colorful markers, with various papers, notebooks, and glasses on the table.
Two people sitting at a table, smiling, engaged in a workshop or brainstorming session. The woman is holding a diagram labeled 'Empathy Mapping.' The table is filled with colorful sticky notes, papers, and markers. In the background, several other individuals are seated and working at tables.
Group of seven people gathered around a table, writing on large sheets of paper with markers, in a room with chairs, bags, and posters in the background.